It is a survivor in a literal sense: what was once a pair is now one, the larger of the two stones having disappeared at some point after it was first recorded.

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs captured both stones when they were still standing, describing one as a huge flag six feet wide at the base, tapering to a point at the top and standing seven feet high, with a square stone of equal height beside it. That first stone, the more dramatic of the pair, is now gone. The one that remains measures 2.2 metres tall and roughly 0.8 by 0.5 metres at its base, oriented roughly west-northwest to east-southeast. It is irregular in outline and tapers as it rises, and its western face has a pronounced overhang, giving it an asymmetry that sets it apart from the more uniform standing stones found elsewhere on the Iveragh Peninsula. The site was documented by the archaeologist Ó Nualláin in 1988, and was later included in a comprehensive archaeological survey of the peninsula published by Cork University Press in 1996. Paired standing stones, sometimes called stone pairs, are a recurring prehistoric monument type in Kerry and Cork, and while their precise function remains debated, their placement in the landscape is rarely accidental. The positioning here, on a slope with a clear outlook over the river valley to the south-west, follows a pattern seen at similar sites across the region.